The space shuttle Discovery launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading through Atlantic skies toward its 51-D mission. The ...

From breathtaking snapshots of distant galaxies to game-changing discoveries about the universe’s expansion, the Hubble Space ...

U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz want to relocate space shuttle Discovery to Houston. It will be more challenging than when the shuttle program ended.

Houston, we might get a shuttle. On Thursday Sen. John Cornyn and Sen. Ted Cruz introduced the Bring Space Shuttle Discovery Home ... in 1980 through its final flight in 2011.

The Space Shuttle Discovery has ... It flew its final flight aboard a Boeing 747 to Dulles International Airport. A ceremony with astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth ...

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery ... and money to preserve Discovery in as near to flight condition as we ...

NASA astronaut Mike Massimino smiles for a photo during STS-125 — the fifth and final Hubble Space Telescope servicing ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A bill introduced Thursday could help bring the Space Shuttle Discovery back home to Texas. “The first word spoken from the moon was ‘Houston.’ To honor that legacy ...

John Grunsfeld has a model of the Hubble Space Telescope on his bookshelf. It's right next to a model of a NASA space shuttle ...

The Space Shuttle Discovery is the only one of ... why Houston is known worldwide as ‘Space City.’" The Discovery first took flight on Aug. 30, 1984, to deliver three satellites into orbit.